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Sullivan Library Workshops

EBSCOhost

Monday, March 5 from 3:45 to 4:45 PM

Thursday, March 8 from 5:45 to 6:45 PM

Featuring one of the most used databases here at Dominican, this workshop is not to be missed! These databases offer articles (journal, magazine and newspaper) as well aselectronic books. Specialty databases are available for the health sciences, psychology, education, and business – or set your sights on Academic Search Elite, a general database perfect for everyone!

As with all workshops, everyone is welcome to attend! Register for this and other Spring 2012 workshops here:

NEW DATABASES!

Hoovers business database offers information on 85 million individuals and 65 million private and public companies from over 900 global industries. The database also contains business news compiled from over 3,000 sources. A directory is also offered to locate contact information for potential employers, partners and clients. You can also use Hoover’s to analyze industry trends or compare companies within or across industries.

An industry style business database, Hoover’s First Research provides users with up-to-date industry intelligence data. Over 900 industries are included in this database. Industry profiles are summarized including critical industry statistics, challenges, opportunities, issues and changes. Call Prep Sheets, State and Province Profiles, and an Industry Prospector tool are also offered to locate or rank industry drivers and key economic metrics.

Morningstar Investment Research Center covers 24,000 funds and 10,000 stocks, 850 reports on ETF’s, 2000 stock analyst reports and 2000 fund analyst reports. It also includes a Portfolio X-Ray, a comprehensive Help and Education Center and other screening tools.

NetAnatomy is an online resource designed to teach human anatomy to students in the health professions. Images and information are offered in three areas: Gross Anatomy, Cross Sectional Anatomy, and Radiographic Anatomy. It also serves as a place to review anatomy after an individual’s exposure to the subject.

The following databases have been removed: OCLC FirstSearch (no longer available), Mergent Online (replaced by Hoovers, First Research, and Morningstar) and CAMIO: Catalog of Art Images Online.

2. There should be a dropdown menu labeled Search: PubMed near the top of the screen.

3. Click the dropdown menu. Instead of PubMed, choose MeSH.

4. In the search box, put in the first medical subject term you are searching for, such as rheumatoid arthritis.

5. Hit enter or click Search.

6. On the next screen you should see a list of possible choices. For example, the first choice is Arthritis, Rheumatoid. Put a checkmark by the result you are interested in.

7. On the right side of the screen, click add to search builder.

8. Now, to help you get a more focused search you should probably add in a second term before you search (usually). For example, in the long search box at the top of the screen, type in drug therapy. Click search (or sometimes it will give you a list of options while you are typing which you can also click).

9. Choose the result that looks like the best fit by putting a checkmark to the left of it.

10. On the right side of the screen, again click add to search builder.

11. When you want to to run the search, click Search PubMed.

The search above will show you all articles which have medical subject headings of Arthritis, Rheumatoid and drug therapy — thus, all articles which deal with drug therapies for this particular condition.

You might have heard of the amazing twinkie diet which helped a nutrition professor drop 27 pounds in 2 months (Caution: not recommended for the sane!). The professor states that the diet is more about how much you eat, not what you eat.

If you were looking for more scientific, authoritative evidence regarding nutrition, you might try the online catalog for books or the databases for journal articles.

A new tool Health Services students includes a handout on how to search the medical databases of EBSCOhost, including Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition, MEDLINE, MEDLINE with Full Text, and CINAHL.